vdr January 2006

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203 discussions

Incormporating frame advance not on I-frames...
by Laz 08 Jan '06

08 Jan '06

Hi, I mentioned this a few weeks back and I've finally got around to having a go at incorporating it. My plan is to change the way the Pause button works so that pressing it whilst paused steps forward by a frame and stays paused (I've owned a real video that does this: pressing play exits pause). Skiping between I-frames like this is easy to achieve by changing cDvbPlayer::Pause to: void cDvbPlayer::Pause(void) { if (playMode == pmPause || playMode == pmStill) { Goto(SkipFrames(1), true); } else { ... This works fine, and is a partial solution but each step is ca. half a second. I was hoping to use something involving: GetIndex(Current, Total, false); // Get current index _not_ snapped to I-frame Goto(++Current); but Goto snaps to I-frames so all I see is it jumping to an I-frame on the first step and then jumping to the same one on successive steps! Is it possible to step between individual frames using cDvbPlayer or does this need doing at a lower level? Cheers, Laz

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sourcecaps, vdr-1.3.36, and concurrent recordings
by Jeremy Hall 08 Jan '06

08 Jan '06

Hello, My sourcecaps looks like this: SourceCaps = 1 S1W S2W S3W S4W SourceCaps = 2 S1W S2W S3W Card1 is a budget card Card2 is a FF card and is PrimaryDevice. I was watching a channel on S4W, which meant the budget card was feeding the stream to the FF card for display. Normally when I record, I am watching the FF card directly, and when the recording starts vdr spins up the budget and tunes to the recording channel so that both cards are tuned to the same channel if I am watching the same chanel I am recording. Anything on S4 is unavailable while recording. When the event started on S2, I expected vdr to leave card0 alone and tune card1 (the ff card) to S2 and start recording from the FF card. Instead, my program on S4 was rudely interrupted, vdr switched to the recording channel, and refused to let me watch the S4 content. I tried a variety of cluges, including two timers, one on S2 and one on S4--that yielded about 30 seconds of content showing then vdr just died. Does anybody understand what might be going on? _J

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VDSB Video Data Stream Broken
by Patrick Maier 07 Jan '06

07 Jan '06

Hi all, I've again a problem with the mysterious Errormessage "ERROR: video data stream broken". First of all I try to explain the setup of the friend of mine, who has the Problem... He has one PC with linvdr and VDR version 1.3.34 with 3 Cards: 2x FF cards and 1x LBudget card There are 2 instances of vdr running, the first instance has one FF card and one LB card. The second instance has the remaining FF card. Everything is doing well UNTIL a recording starts. After 30 seconds the vdr instance which is recording brings that VDSB ERROR: "ERROR: video data stream broken" and an emergency exit is done. This Error appears 90% of the time.... the rest 10% all is doing well... Can anyone explain why this error occurs? Or what to do to solve the Problem? The logfile is attached. Greets Patrick -- There are only 10 kind of people who understand binary digits: Those who do - Those who don't...

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Recordings > 24 hours
by Petric Frank 07 Jan '06

07 Jan '06

Hello, maybe a stupid question ... How to program a recording in VDR which have to run for more than 24 hours ? regards Petric

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Softdevice crashes on channels that are not Stereo
by Dave 07 Jan '06

07 Jan '06

I have this new error after changing motherboards in a VDR box. Jan 4 20:03:59 vdr vdr[6909]: setting audio track to 1 (0) Jan 4 20:03:59 vdr vdr[6912]: [softdevice-audio] samplerate: 48000Hz, channels: #1 Jan 4 20:03:59 vdr vdr[6912]: [softdevice-audio] Channels count non available FATAL exiting Jan 4 20:04:00 vdr vdr[6516]: DFB remote control thread ended (pid=6516) . Any time I tune to a "mono" channel, VDR Softdevice crashes, whenever Channels: #1 I Only changed the motherboard, nothing in VDR, so I suspect some sound misconfiguration. I just have no idea what? Vdr 1.3.37 Softdevice CVS fairly recent

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[ANNOUNCE] DithernDemo 0.0.3
by Patrick Fischer 07 Jan '06

07 Jan '06

Hello This is the third Version of my dithernDemo Plugin. It is only a Demo for Developers, so there is no use for VDR users. This Demo was based on my dithernPatch for VDR, but it also works without this patch. The Demo shows how a developer can mix colors. In some cases you can only use 4 or 8 Colors, so I will show you how to mix this Colors up to 16 or 64 Colors. Not all Colors are useful but some are nice. Install this Demo like every other Plugin. You can't change the number of colors at runtime (sorry just a demo) The number of the base colors are defined by static const int COLORS = 8; in dithern.c You can use 2 upto MAXCOLORS Colors. More then 64 are untested and will only work with the xine or softdevice Plugin. The first 16 Colors are defined by values. More the 16 colors will be randomize colors. In this Version it is possible to show a gradient. Switch to "Curses Mode" to show it. OK will toggle to curses/dithern mode. If you are in the DithernMode, you can change the BaseColors by pressing the Keys 1..9 If you are in the CourseMode you can change the Colors by pressing 1 and 2; left, right will change the width, up/down the high of the Courses. Back will exit the Plugin. Some users reported about heavy flickering on some mixed Colors. I hope you will find it useful. Greetings Patrick

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xine: very high CPU load
by Alexander Munro 06 Jan '06

06 Jan '06

Hi. I'm using VDR 1.3.37 with vdr-1.3.31-dvbplayer5.patch, vdr-1.3.37-sc.diff, vdr-1.3.34-ffdecsa-0.1.2.diff, vdr-femon 0.9.5, vdr-sc 0.5.3, vdr-xine 0.7.6, and xine-lib, xine-ui, both latest CVS snapshots with patches from vdr-xine 0.7.6. My DVB-S card is SkyStar 2.6D. Although I have Athlon XP 2000+ with 512 MB RAM and GF3 Ti200, xine eats about 70-80, and even sometimes 90% of my CPU while displaying VDR's screen. I have followed tips from the xine FAQ but nothing changed. When I'm playing movies from my harddrive everything is ok. I have even tried launching the X server (X.org 7.0RC4) without window manager, still no efect. Can you help me, please? Or maybe there is a way to use mplayer instead of xine? Thanks in advance. -- Jarek <lt.munro(a)gmail.com>

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[ANNOUNCE] vdr-autosort-0.0.8
by CopyPoint 06 Jan '06

06 Jan '06

New AutoSort is online http://www.copypointburscheid.de/linux/vdr-autosort-0.0.8.tgz ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2005-12-09: Version 0.0.8 - Added setting TimeStamps and option 'TimeStamp' to catch channels that haven't updated for some days. - Fixed a bug that prevented to move a group that contains a channel with same name like the group. - Speeded up group moving in case a group has to move downwards. - Fixed channel moving to hit the right group at first run now. - Added option 'NotProvider' to exclude a provider from a group. - Added fixedPositions for 'Auto Sort', 'Unsorted' and 'New Channels'. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thorsten ==================================================================== AutoSort plugin adds the capability to define rules for automatically sorting your channels.conf Project's homepage: http://www.copypointburscheid.de/linux/autosort.htm Latest version: http://www.copypointburscheid.de/linux/vdr-autosort-0.0.8.tgz ====================================================================

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Autodetach unused receiver
by Patrick Fischer 06 Jan '06

06 Jan '06

So I have written an Patch that fixed that unused cReceiver will be detached automaticly if the source was changed. Attach a cReceiver to Channel ABC on PID xyz. If you switch to an other Channel on the same transponder the you can still receiver the data on the PID xyz. But if you switch to an other Channel on an other transponder, then the receiver needs to detached (NeedsDetachReceivers). (depends on the Prio) For me it seems to be forgotten from Klaus. So I hope my patch will fix it. I need it for my Plugin. Hope this will included in 1.5.x :-) Greetings Patrick --- ../vdr-1.3.37_orig/device.c 2005-11-26 13:56:09.000000000 +0100 +++ device.c 2006-01-05 17:44:22.000000000 +0100 @@ -577,10 +577,15 @@ if (LiveView) StopReplay(); + // If this card switch to an other Channel and the attached reserver can't receiver there source, + // then they will be detached. It would be irritate if the receiver with was attached for a + // specified PID sudden receive data from an other channel which has accidental the same PID + bool NeedsDetachReceivers; + // If this card can't receive this channel, we must not actually switch // the channel here, because that would irritate the driver when we // start replaying in Transfer Mode immediately after switching the channel: - bool NeedsTransferMode = (LiveView && IsPrimaryDevice() && !ProvidesChannel(Channel, Setup.PrimaryLimit)); + bool NeedsTransferMode = (LiveView && IsPrimaryDevice() && !ProvidesChannel(Channel, Setup.PrimaryLimit,&NeedsDetachReceivers)); eSetChannelResult Result = scrOk; @@ -588,11 +593,22 @@ // use the card that actually can receive it and transfer data from there: if (NeedsTransferMode) { - cDevice *CaDevice = GetDevice(Channel, 0); + cDevice *CaDevice = GetDevice(Channel, 0, &NeedsDetachReceivers); if (CaDevice && CanReplay()) { cStatus::MsgChannelSwitch(this, 0); // only report status if we are actually going to switch the channel - if (CaDevice->SetChannel(Channel, false) == scrOk) // calling SetChannel() directly, not SwitchChannel()! + if (CaDevice->SetChannel(Channel, false) == scrOk){ // calling SetChannel() directly, not SwitchChannel()! cControl::Launch(new cTransferControl(CaDevice, Channel->Vpid(), Channel->Apids(), Channel->Dpids(), Channel->Spids())); + + //detach all receivers from device + if (NeedsDetachReceivers){ + dsyslog("Need to detach all receivers from device. Source has been changed."); + for (int i = 0; i < MAXRECEIVERS; i++) { + if (CaDevice->receiver[i]){ + CaDevice->receiver[i]->Detach(); + } + } + } + } else Result = scrNoTransfer; } @@ -635,6 +651,16 @@ // Start decrypting any PIDs the might have been set in SetChannelDevice(): if (ciHandler) ciHandler->StartDecrypting(); + + //detach all receivers from device + if (NeedsDetachReceivers){ + dsyslog("Need to detach all receivers from device. Source will be changed."); + for (int i = 0; i < MAXRECEIVERS; i++) { + if (receiver[i]){ + receiver[i]->Detach(); + } + } + } } else Result = scrFailed;

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Info is not displayed
by Thomas Rausch 06 Jan '06

06 Jan '06

Hello, my info is not displayed (vdr-1.3.37). Expample: /video/Serien/Tobias/%Römerstraßen/2006-01-03.04.50.50.99.rec/info.vdr C S19.2E-1-1101-28114 T Römerstraßen S (1/4) Die Via Egnatia - Von Albanien nach Makedonien D Römerstraßen|||(1/4) Die Via Egnatia - Von Albanien nach Makedonien|Kanal: 13 - Phoenix X 1 01 deu 4:3 X 2 03 deu stereo But it is displayed with info nothing. Is this a bug? ;)

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